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Abe's Amazing Adventure!!

Abe's Amazing Adventure!!

A platformer built for my son's 2nd birthday (decades ago...)

How to build it:

You will need the SDL and SDL_mixer libraries (v1.2) and scons to build Abe.

Mac:

brew install sdl sdl_mixer scons
scons --macos
./bin/abe

Linux:

Same as the mac except use the package manager of your choice (yum, apt, etc) to install sdl_dev and sdl_mixer_dev. Run scons by itself with no flags.

Windows:

Since I don't have access to windows, I set up a docker image to cross compile to an .exe via migw. You will need docker to run this build.

cd docker-build
./make.sh

The resulting abe.win.zip file should be the windows executable.

How to run it:

./abe

and in fullscreen mode: ./abe -f

on Windows: abe.exe

Notes:

You can also run: ./abe --help to see some other options. Abe can in video modes between 320x200 to 800x600. It needs at least a 16bpp mode. You can do: ./abe -t to see what video modes will run faster in fullscreen mode.

Controls:

This is only a demo, so please excuse the rough edges. On the startup screen, hit "SPACE" to run the game, or "ENTER" to run the editor. In general the keys are:

Game:

arrow keys - move space - jump enter - use a balloon esc - quit

Editor: (to enable the editor set Game.h/GOD_MODE to 1 and re-build)

arrow keys - move home,end,pageup,pagedown - move around by pages enter - put down tile 1,2,3 - select layer del,backspace - clear tile 5,6 - cycle thru tiles L - load map S - save map esc - quit q,w - make a slide (q-top left, w-bottom right) q,e - make a rectangle